Some 1,500 teachers are expected to gather outside parliament on Monday in protest at the government’s plans to increase the compulsory number of teaching hours in secondary schools from 1,000 to 1,040.

The government also plans to cut the secondary school summer break from seven to six weeks.
The changes still have to be approved by the upper house of parliament (senate) which is expected to vote on them at the end of this month.
The protest has been organised by the smaller teaching union LIA, which has called for a three-day strike. The LIA is concentrated in The Hague region and around 100 schools are likely to be affected, according to the secondary school association.
The biggest teaching union AOb is holding a demonstration against the changes in Utrecht on January 26.